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The Wales Perspective

The Wales Perspective. Dennis Gunning Director of Skills, HE and Lifelong Learning Welsh Assembly Government. Learning and skills in Wales. Context Legislation and public administration Distinctive Welsh strategy and policy Future directions?. Context.

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The Wales Perspective

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  1. The Wales Perspective Dennis Gunning Director of Skills, HE and Lifelong Learning Welsh Assembly Government

  2. Learning and skills in Wales • Context • Legislation and public administration • Distinctive Welsh strategy and policy • Future directions?

  3. Context • Industrial legacy: geography • Economy – SMEs, public sector, few HQs or R&D • Devolution – 10 years young • Political and strategic direction in One Wales • Leitch, UKCES and WESB • Impact of economic downturn – skills to the fore

  4. Legislation and public administration • Westminster < > Cardiff Bay relationship • One department for education and training • - but economic development? employment? • Quangos have been bonfired • Barnett – fair formula or flexible friend?

  5. Distinctive Welsh strategy and policy • Collaboration, not competition • Pathways and participation • The Leitch agenda and Wales • Supply-side reforms • Focus on key programmes

  6. Future directions?

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